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PayPal API endpoint to fetch Customers data

I am building an integration with PayPal REST API and looking to fetch Customers data of a merchant. From the API Documentation of PayPal, it seems Identity resource - https://developer.paypal.com/docs/api/identity/v1. (documentation seems to be a little misleading)

However upon querying it, it provides merchant user data/profile data. Is there any other way I can retrieve a merchant's customers with their ID's ideally?

Also if this info is not directly available via PayPal ? Would Ebay be a choice given its a parent company?

Thanks and regards.

Solution

  • Ebay and PayPal are not the same company, that was six years ago.

    A merchant can download their transaction history in https://www.paypal.com by going to Activity -> All Reports.

    Much less usefully, there is a Transaction Search API. If you enable the required permission for a Client ID but have already used that Client ID to obtain an access token, wait 9 hours for the new scope.